> "getting volume label for CD" at http://linuxgazette.net/issue72/tag/2.html does not really
> have a good answer. I suggest something like this:
>
> To find the volume name of a CD or other device, use the volname utility.
> For example:
>
> $ grep hdc /etc/fstab
> /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0022,users,iocharset=utf8,sync,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
> $ sudo volname /dev/hdc
> 46368_546292
>
> The volume name of the CD in /dev/hdc is "46368_546292".

Actually, we had a great discussion about it just a couple of issues
after that: